Senior Software Developer (.NET)

at  Pearson

ABOUT UK ASSESSMENT & QUALIFICATIONS

We are responsible for the delivery of nearly 4 million examination results per annum, including A-Level, GCSE, BTEC and T-levels for students in UK and International centres. Our in-house systems process every learner from registration to marking and certification, in a highly regulated business. We currently operate a hybrid estate of predominantly bespoke systems, with an ongoing strategic transformation programme to migrate from on-prem to cloud based, cost effective, scalable and resilient services.

KEY SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

• Building backend services and Web APIs utilising C# with .NET
• Applying development methodologies like TDD, CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code
• Mentoring more junior members of the team in overall software development
• Working with product owner and business analyst to refine and estimate requirements
• Working with the project managers, product owners and operation team to ensure application are successfully delivered to production
• Providing production support
• Persisting data using relational (SQL) and/or document databases
• Designing highly performant systems
• Understand modern application architectures and how they can be applied, like Microservice / Service Oriented Architectures
• Providing overall software architecture guidance in terms of best practice when it comes to development

DESIRABLE SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

• .Net Core or later versions
• Terraform
• Docker and containers
• Single page web applications using React
• Designing, developing, and deploying cloud applications
• Jenkins
• NodeJS
  The role is aligned to either our Rotherham, Oxford, Manchester or central London offices. Our Rotherham office is located at Junction 1 of the M18, making it commutable from Sheffield, Leeds, Doncaster, Derby or Nottingham.
  All our roles are hybrid working; for this role that means visiting your base office no more than once a week with the possibility of occasional travel to other Pearson sites, however, candidates must be a suitable commute from their base office.
  We work a 37.5 hour week, with all our team free to flex their day around our core hours, which are Monday to Friday, 10 to 4 GMT/BST. School runs, etc can be accommodated. Other flexible working patterns can be considered, including part-time working and non-traditional hours. As we regularly work with global teams, particularly in India and the US, there may be the occasional need to accommodate meetings outside of core hours.
  For this role there is a requirement to provide occasional out of hours support during business critical periods.
  We actively encourage our staff to participate in at least 40 hours of training a year, and offer relevant AWS training and certification as part of this role.